UD followed, when the story first arose, the heavily indebted University of Central Arkansas president who forged the names of some UCA administrators on a letter to the school’s trustees. The letter told the trustees to give Lu Hardin a big ol’ deferred compensation package now, pronto. The remarkably incurious trustees (All pals of Hardin’s, maybe? Hardin’s a Mike Huckabee protege, by the way.) went ahead and did this. Then some damn newspaper began investigating.

University presidents aren’t supposed to steal from their schools, and Hardin now faces thirty years in prison for wire fraud and money laundering.